Aram Schechter

Aram Schechter (15 June 1965-) was a general of Israel's Israeli Defense Force (IDF).

Biography
Aram Schechter was born on 15 June 1965 in Sumgayit, Azerbaijan to a Jewish family. He immigrated to the Israeli city of Rishon LeZion (the fourth-largest city in Israel), and became a soldier in the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) in 1982 at the age of 17, serving in the Lebanese Civil War, some of the bitterest fighting in the Middle East and the most-televised war up to that date. Schechter was promoted to Lieutenant-General in 1999 after graduating from the Frunze Military Academy in Russia, and he became a member of the General Staff of the IDF. In 2006 he planned out Operation Falling Comet against the Gaza Strip's Hamas terrorist groups, and Schechter succeeded in wiping out many high-level terrorists. After the war, he continued to serve as an IDF commander.